The best side-scroller games

A side-scroller (or horizontal scrolling) is a video game in which the action is shown in a side perspective and the environment scrolls mainly on an horizontal axis. Characters usually have to move from the left to the right side of the screen to go on in the game.

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DOS19944/5 Pixel Painters Corporation

Bad Street Brawler

DOS19874/5 Beam Software

Risky Woods

DOS1992protected4/5 Dinamic Multimedia

Forgotten Worlds

DOS19914/5 Capcom

Double Dragon

DOS19884/5 Technos Japan

Fury of the Furries

DOS19934/5 Kalisto Entertainment

Mega Man 3

DOS19924/5 Hi-Tech Expressions

The Great Giana Sisters

DOS1987remake4/5

The Great Giana Sisters is a platform video game developed by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. It was originally released in 1987 for the Commodore 64 and other platforms, and later unofficially ported to MS-DOS.The game follows the adventures of two sisters, Giana and Maria, as they journey through a dream world filled with var...

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

DOS19914/5 Syntetic Dimensions

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the many adaptations of the Terminator franchise. This one is based on the movie of the same name, but it's not as good as the movie, according to critics. Terminator 2 is an action game developed by Syntetic Dimensions and released by Ocean Software in 1991 for DOS. It was also published for C64, ZX Spectrum, A...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

DOS19924/5 Manley Associates

Super Star Wars

DOS19924/5 LucasArts

African Trail Simulator

DOS19904/5 Positive

Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

DOS1990freeware4/5

Commander Keen 2: The Earth Explodes

DOS1990protected4/5 id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine

DOS1991protected4/5 id software

Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is a science fiction action oriented platform game designed by Tom Hall, developed by id Software and released by Apogee Software in 1991 for DOS only. Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine is part of the Commander Keen game series, specifically it's the second episode of Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy.